Latitude: 51.5058 / 51°30'20"N
Longitude: -3.1986 / 3°11'54"W
OS Eastings: 316908
OS Northings: 179221
OS Grid: ST169792
Mapcode National: GBR KCB.R5
Mapcode Global: VH6F6.HFW0
Plus Code: 9C3RGR42+8H
Entry Name: Milepost
Listing Date: 18 July 2001
Last Amended: 18 July 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 25523
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300025523
Location: Located on the NE side of Gabalfa Interchange, on a slip road which joins Eastern Avenue (A48). Against a concrete wall which fronts an open space.
County: Cardiff
Town: Cardiff
Community: Heath (Y Mynydd Bychan)
Community: Heath
Locality: Gabalfa Interchange
Built-Up Area: Cardiff
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Milestone
C19 milepost, shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1880, which was located at the junction of two important routes out of Cardiff, Merthyr Road and Caerphilly Road. The arrangement of roads, with the construction of Gabalfa interchange, is much altered and the milepost is probably not in its original position.
Cast iron milepost of triangular cross-section on a short square base. The 2 faces at 45 degrees have round-arched tops and lettering in relief. That to the L reads 'Cardiff 2', that to the R, 'Merthyr 22'. These faces are splayed at the base, and a triangle facing forward reads 'Caerphilly 5'. The square base has a recessed panel to the front which may have had an inscription.
Listed as a rare survival of a milepost at the junction of two important historic routes out of Cardiff.
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